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Example sentences for "congenital"

Lexicographically close words:
congeneric; congenerous; congeners; congenial; congeniality; congenitally; conger; congeries; congers; congested
  1. We have already seen that before the subject was taken up by Weismann the difference between acquired and congenital characters in respect to transmissibility was generally taken to be one of degree; not one of kind.

  2. The certain fact is, that a great distinction in respect of heritability is observable between congenital and acquired characters.

  3. It has long been well known that acquired characters are at best far less fully and far less certainly inherited than are congenital ones.

  4. Now, the supposition that changed conditions of life may thus affect the congenital endowments of germ-plasm is not a gratuitous one.

  5. Indeed, so far as the phenomena of heredity are concerned, it is conceivable that all congenital characters were originally acquired, and afterwards became congenital on account of their long inheritance.

  6. Hence, as often as a small number of individuals may have experienced isolation in any of its forms, opportunity for perpetuation will have been given to any congenital variations which may happen to arise.

  7. Thus it happens that faculties, as of music, which scarcely exist in some inferior human races, become congenital in superior ones.

  8. Wooden promptly conceded that, but claimed the identification not complete as he doubted whether, strictly speaking, I could be classified as a congenital idiot.

  9. Wooden admitted that this proved me an idiot, but not necessarily a congenital idiot.

  10. It invariably travels around with a congenital idiot.

  11. One sister is neurotic; her eight year old son suffers from congenital heart disease.

  12. In many persons, happiness is congenital and irreclaimable.

  13. The capacity for even a transient sadness or a momentary humility seems cut off from them as by a kind of congenital anaesthesia.

  14. We conjecture that one original cause of congenital deafness which reappears in a family is consanguinity--for instance, the intermarriage of first or second cousins (hearing people) in some previous generation.

  15. The classification of deafness acquired in infancy with congenital deafness by some other authorities (giving rise to the rather absurd term "toto-congenital" to describe the latter) is unscientific.

  16. It is probable that the kinæsthetic centres in the cortex for the neck muscles are the seat of the lesion, and that their congenital and hereditary imperfection fixes the form the convulsion will take.

  17. The fact that the newly hatched chick is capable of walking has been advanced as an argument for the existence of congenital automatism.

  18. In Desterac's opinion their spasmodic torticollis was dependent on this congenital constitutional affection, which might be regarded as a fruste form of one of the diseases above mentioned.

  19. Nevertheless it will be possible for different causes to have a preventive and mitigating influence on the various forms of congenital degeneration (ordinary diseases, criminality, insanity and nervous disorders).

  20. In its stead the criminologists wish to substitute the simple segregation of individuals who are not fitted for social life on account of pathological conditions, congenital or acquired, permanent or transitory.

  21. Likewise they think they discover a certain contradiction between socialism and the teachings of criminal anthropology concerning the congenital criminal, though these teachings are also deducted from Darwinism.

  22. Harelip= This is a congenital defect consisting in a notch or split in the upper lip.

  23. But a good many men are possessed of an excess of libido; it is either congenital or acquired.

  24. Natural blindness, deafness, muteness, and congenital deformities of limb are more or less likely to be passed on to their children.

  25. Such children either die at birth, or later, of this congenital syphilis.

  26. Men suffering from congenital defects should not marry.

  27. A crowd of eager claimants arose, who cared nothing about any last scion of a noble race undergoing treatment in Switzerland, at the expense of the deceased, as a congenital idiot.

  28. The palate is often highly arched; hare-lip is not uncommon; in fact congenital defect or malformation of other organs than the brain is more commonly met with among idiots than in the general community.

  29. Without being a man of science, I fully believe that our congenital characteristics form, as I have said, certain impassable limits to our development.

  30. That is to say, his congenital qualities implied certain powers; but what he would do with them remained to be partly determined by an indefinite variety of external circumstances acting upon him in various ways.

  31. The prevalent hypothesis for the moment was that Maurice had a congenital aversion to some color, the effects of which upon him were so painful or disagreeable that he habitually avoided exposure to it.

  32. About this terrible fact of congenital obliquity his new beliefs began to cluster as a centre, and to take form as a crystal around its nucleus.

  33. Sitting on the girls' benches, conspicuous among the school-girls of unlettered origin by that look which rarely fails to betray hereditary and congenital culture, was a young person very nearly of my own age.

  34. There is some apparently congenital defect in the Indians, for instance, that keeps them from choosing civilization and Christianity.

  35. They are really not so much diseases, as manifestations of congenital incapacity for life; the race would be ruined if art could ever learn always to preserve the individuals subject to them.

  36. There are races of scholars among us, in which aptitude for learning, and all these marks of it I have spoken of, are congenital and hereditary.

  37. Yet I should not have devoted so many words to it, did I not recognize the light it has thrown on human actions by its study of congenital organic tendencies.

  38. No, I don't believe it is much more than an extreme case of shyness, connected, perhaps, with some congenital or other personal repugnance to which has been given the name of an antipathy.

  39. The strongest and the ablest men have found it impossible to resist the impression produced by the most insignificant object, by the most harmless sight or sound to which they had a congenital or acquired antipathy.

  40. There is a whole family connection in New England, and that a very famous one, to many of whose members, in different generations, all the products of the dairy are the subjects of a congenital antipathy.

  41. It will be seen at once how such a congenital antipathy would tend to isolate the person who was its unfortunate victim.

  42. He had talked himself bold, and said all at once, "Doctor, do you know I am almost ready to accept your doctrine of the congenital sinfulness of human nature?

  43. These men, it might be noticed, were the congenital adventurers, men who needed to swashbuckle and revel in the name of individualist.

  44. These were congenital rebels who became quite enthusiastic when he told them their activities would result in a fierce persecution of the Church.

  45. The text implies that: (a) Sin is a nature, in the sense of a congenital depravity of the will.

  46. Here evidently is a congenital aptitude and disposition.

  47. Pelagianism ignores or denies the presence in every child of a congenital selfishness which hinders acceptance of the truth, and which, without the working of the divine Spirit, will absolutely counteract the influence of the truth.

  48. This class of ailments will usually be encountered among patients who are enfeebled by unfavorable conditions of health, either congenital or acquired.

  49. This may be either the result of disease or of congenital defect of cerebral organization.

  50. A boy born with a deficient power of apprehending signs and abstractions must suffer the penalty of his congenital deficiency, just as if he had been born with one leg shorter than the other.

  51. Pulmonary volvuloplasty under direct vision using the mechanical heart for a complete bypass of the right heart in a patient with congenital pulmonary stenosis.

  52. Pulmonary Volvuloplasty under Direct Vision using the Mechanical Heart for a Complete Bypass of the Right Heart in a Patient with Congenital Pulmonary Stenosis," pp.

  53. He only mourned his disadvantages, and sometimes blamed destiny, sometimes a congenital infirmity of purpose, for the dreary course of his life.

  54. Congenital syphilis often leads to epilepsy or to idiocy, and most of the victims who survive are a charge on the State.

  55. The provisions of subsection (1) hereof shall apply in the case of a child under the age of sixteen years who is suffering from congenital syphilis.

  56. As regards modes of infection, syphilis is contracted usually by sexual congress; occasionally the mode of infection is accidental and innocent, and congenital transmission is not uncommon.

  57. This defect, as already seen, may be congenital or acquired, and may consist of a lack of development due to vicious environment and faulty education, mental and physical.

  58. No congenital defect, but health ruined by drink.

  59. But experience shows that the good effects of education are also seriously impaired by individual factors, especially by congenital predisposition, or by a tendency acquired very early in life.

  60. Congenital defects of the heart are commoner in boys, the proportion obtained from a very large number of cases of this kind being 61.

  61. This is all I have to say about the relationship between the congenital predisposition and the external influences of life.

  62. I recognise the existence of congenital homosexuality, but I consider that the reality of this condition is established by other grounds than those just mentioned.

  63. The congenital nature of homosexuality has been assumed more particularly in those cases which are described respectively as effemination and viraginity.

  64. And such a diagnosis we have already learned often shows that no congenital doom marks the child labelled "different," but rather some curable bad condition in his life that needs only wisdom and economic power to correct.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "congenital" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absolute; atavistic; bodily; born; clean; clear; coeval; comprehensive; congenital; connate; constitutional; consummate; downright; egregious; essential; exhaustive; genetic; hereditary; inborn; inbred; incarnate; indigenous; indwelling; ingrained; inherent; inherited; innate; instinctive; intensive; intrinsic; native; natural; omnibus; omnipresent; organic; outright; perfect; pervasive; physical; plain; plumb; primal; pure; radical; regular; sheer; straight; sweeping; temperamental; thorough; total; ubiquitous; unconditional; universal; unmitigated; unqualified; unreserved; unrestricted; utter; veritable; wholesale